How Does Jack Change In Lord Of The Flies

For example, Piggy wanted to talk, and he had the shell but Jack kept talking over him. Also to show at the beginning how he still had good morals in him, he was out hunting and had the opportunity to kill the pig for food, but inside him he knew he did not want to do it and that it was not the right thing to do. Later on he did not hesitate to kill the pig, after Jack killed the pig it says, “His mind crowded with memories, memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed it on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink”(70). Not only did he kill the pig, but he enjoyed it.

In the first three chapters Jack seems to change personalities from when he was in school to when he landed on the Island, he changed from responsible to trying to be the alpha male. When Jack was in school he was more responsible by helping other kids, but when he landed on the island all his responsibility got thrown out a window since all he wanted to do was a hunt and not get rescued. Jack is the kind of person that would judge people based on their size and appearance ever since he landed on the Island. The reader should see that Jack is an unkind person. The readers should see that Jack has been making fun, and trying to put Piggy down.

Further on in Lord of the Flies Jack calls an assembly with the conch and uses this to discuss some problems. During this Jack says that "Ralph thinks they are all cowards”. (p126) since he has the conch ralph can' respond since that’s the rule. This is extremely important since Jack tries to use this to make all the hunters think Ralph dislikes them and thinks lowly of them. Although this isn't effective on Jacks part it shows once again Jacks fear of Ralph and how he knows Ralph can change the hunters before their final descent into savagery.

AN HONOURABLE LEADER An honorable leader has many characteristics and these characteristics differ from one person to another. In the extravagant book The Lord Of The Flies written by William Golding young boys get stranded on an island. As time progresses some of the boys turn more and more into savages. The book demonstrates how our society would be without rules, regulations and laws.

The Congo Free State was a huge region comprising of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that was privately owned by the King of Belgium, King Leopold II. The rubber plantations down there were horrific to say the least and one description in King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild by an Englishman that was a witness to this, “...was to arrive in canoes at a village...they attacked the natives until able to seize their women… [the women] were kept as hostages until the chief of the district brought in the required number of kilograms of rubber.” (Hochschild 161). Nowadays, we are utterly shocked in disbelief that such a system could arise but the emotion of fear can explain this.

But, as the story continues, the freedom the island has gets into Jack's mind and causes him to becomes power-hungry, evil and savage. His hunger for power starts off small with comments he makes like this one he says in the beginning of the book, "I ought to be chief, because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp" (chapter 8 page 21). But the hunger for power gets out of control and he

Jack was the leader of the choir boys, before arriving on the island. He wanted to be Chief, but Ralph had more votes. Ralph, the representor of civilization, gave Jack control over his choir boys, so he made them hunters. Throughout the novel, we see him grow from a hunter to a savage. This transformation affects all the characters in the book, as he decides to leave Ralph’s tribe and make his own.

Every child comes into this world as a selfish, manipulative, cruel and stubborn being. It is the parents and society that teaches children how to function in a civilized world, and societal laws that keeps them under control. William Golding wrote this novel in the early years of the cold war and the atomic age. In William Golding's classic novel Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Jack, a young savage who looks to lead a group of stranded kids on an island with no food, no rules, and no adults. The effect freedom has on Jack has turned him into a savage because he does not have to listen to anyone since there are no adults on the island.

Lastly, Jack is known as the rebel of the story who disagrees with the leaders, and is pure evil from middle to end. Although Jack is evil, his bad character trait ensures his survival and alliance with the boys. The first example of when Jack’s evilness is shown in the story is when Jack hunts the pig and puts its head on a stick, the line says “ Jack held the head up and jammed the soft throat down on the pointed end of the stick which pierced through into the mouth. He stood back and the head hung there, a little blood dribbling down the stick” ( Golding, 150). This shows Jack’s evilness because instead of fearing the beast he is offering him the head of the pig that he just brutally murdered.

If an adolescent were to commit a horrendous crime such as murder, should they be convicted as guilty or not? Kids at the age 12 should realize what is right from wrong. They obliviously know that if they were to be in a position where they were killing another human, that is just a murderous crime and should be guilty for their actions. In the book Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a boy named Jack had committed two murders on the island where everyone was stranded. Some people agree that if adolescents were to do something irresponsible and regretful it's because “their brains just haven’t physically matured yet.

When faced with adversity, those who preserve their integrity while adapting to their environment emerge the most successful. To preserve one’s integrity is to be honest and have strong moral principles. In the book The Lord of the Flies, William Goulding suggests that adversity will reveal inherent morals, and the willingness to remain a man of integrity. Goulding reveals how abandoning one’s integrity leads to the deterioration of one’s mental health, but also how an abundance of integrity can lead to disastrous consequences. Goulding illustrates how Piggy’s refusal to adapt leading to his eventual death, Jack’s liberation from his morals leading to near insanity and Ralph’s ability to remain in the middle of the spectrum was all due to their

In The Lord of The Flies, the island starts out with a sensible leader whose sole goal was to save the boys from getting stranded on the island. It soon changes into a chaotic, unorganized place because of Jack Merridew. His leadership consisted of brutality and provoking fear into the other boys. This may or may not have helped cause the deaths of two boys on the island. It is possible that Jack helped cause the deaths of Piggy and Simon, but in no way is it true that he is the sole cause of their murder, as it is obvious who is.

During an assembly when Piggy holds the conch, Jack states, "you shut up! Who are you, anyway? Sitting there telling people what to do. You can't hunt, you can't sing—" (78). Jack has lost respect for every other boy on the island, and he believes that he is more important than the others, which allows him to power over the

From the beginning of the novel when he first became a hunter, Jack is thrust into this position of darkness and villainy, as his “mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge of the had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig,” (70). Although beginning with a simple animal, this characterizes Jack with an ability to kill and an innate sense of evil with desires he cannot remove from his head that he must fulfill at all costs. Moreover, Golding further implies the characterization of prey and predator, as he takes pleasure from the sinful ideal of a struggling prey’s life being taken. Jack’s need for power is displayed even further through this characterization as well, as his mind beging interchanging a pig and Ralph, his Ego. This characterizes the beginning of Jack’s exponential growth as his time prolongs on the island, as he becomes powerful on his journey, becoming more and more brutal, and losing sight of human nature, only focusing on the mere act of shoving a spear “right up her ass!”

Jack lost his sanity and civility and this changed him in more ways than imaginable. Jack was a natural leader when the boys first came onto the island, but as time continued he became a horrible dictator. On the first day on the island, Ralph and Jack competed for chief of the island. Ralph won. Jack was unhappy with this result, but it didn’t yet throw him into a spiral of craze and anger.